A personal Substack from an ex-art director covering cozy living, everyday beauty and creative practice, mixing visual-composition lessons with first-person essays. Readers get photography and aesthetics tips alongside reflective stories about motherhood, layoffs and slowing down.
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A weekly newsletter that explains one mental model per issue through a detailed historical story, then ties it to creative work. Issues cover topics such as hostile attribution bias, design thinking and the Gestalt law of closure.
Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.
Christina Larocco writes personal and historical essays that braid family stories with ideas from history, such as the myth of individual genius and the cultural origins of ideas. Readers get reflective, well-researched essays that connect everyday life to larger questions about meaning, creativity and mortality.
A fortnightly letter of personal essays on attention, creative persistence and the habits behind making things, drawing on the author's own records and on research. Readers get reflective, candid writing about reading, routines and sustaining long projects.
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